Syria s Idlib: What Future For The Rebel Holdout? By Tony Gamal-Gabriel
03/07/21 AT 10:10 PM
Ten years into Syria s war, a large patch of territory in the country s northwest controlled by jihadists and allied rebels is still holding out against the Damascus regime.
Can the Idlib bastion, protected against a military onslaught since a March 2020 ceasefire, continue to survive as its own self-run territory, perhaps a bit like the Palestinian Gaza Strip?
On the border with Turkey, a former Al-Qaeda affiliate as well as a flurry of rebel groups and other jihadists resist government rule in a chunk of territory referred to as Idlib.
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Car bomb hits near Russia base in northeast Syria: monitor Published on Share
A car bomb detonated near a Russian military base in northeastern Syria Friday in the first such jihadist attack in the area against the ally of Damascus, a war monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported several wounded in the attack after midnight in the Tal Saman area in Raqa province, but did not give an exact figure.
There was no immediate Russian report of the incident, which occurred in a broader area controlled by Kurdish-led forces but where the Syrian regime and its ally Russia are also present.